The Ljubljana band balans presents a new video single “njamnjam” from their latest album “sam pravm“.

Order vinyl or digital album “sam pravm” at KAPA Records Bandcamp.

“Lollipops, ballet dresses, breakfast, children’s corner, a small TV and seductive looks. Recorded with ‘one old camera” in the idyllic Ljubljana neighborhood by the highway.”

The international music portal Beehype ranked the album “sam pravm” in the 1st place of the “top 10 albums” from Slovenia, the newspaper Dnevnik mentioned it under “semi-annual selection of the best albums 2020”, and Radio Študent among the “top 10” of the domestic albums Naj tolpe bumov 2020.

The post-punk versatility embodied in balans proves that their music knows no boundaries, nor does it try to transcend them. Their approach to creation, which skillfully maps everyday stories and feelings into a minimalist musical structure, is even more open and genuine this time around.

The Ljubljana based audio-visual duo balans, Kristin Čona and Andrej Pervanje, have been balancing their post-pop-punk sound since 2013. They complement their sympathetically whimsical musical expression with personal confessional lyrics and sharp whistling. The banality of their music is also connected with a strong visual component. In 2016 they started collaborating with a contemporary artist Alessandro Di Giampietro, who takes care of the entire band’s visual aesthetics with his unique artworks. Last year, with the desire to further enrich their live performances, drummer Jan Kmet joined them on stage.

In 2018, as part of the Radio Študent club marathon, the band played on most of the Slovenian stages. With their relaxed and authentic performance, they also impressed the audience abroad, touring from Vienna to Skopje. As this year’s “Ines talent” of the international network of showcase festivals Ines, they have already performed at several showcase festivals; MENT Ljubljana, Waves Vienna, and in November they will perform via stream at the digital edition of the Spanish MonkeyWeek. In December last year they collaborated with the Belgrade collective Krava 22 at the Dvocikel art residency in Kranj, where they also recorded an entire album, which will be released in 2021. Their two latest albums “a vam je jasno” (2019, ŠOP Records) and “sam pravm” (KAPA Records, 2020) were named the best album of 2019 and 2020 on the international music platform Beehype. In recent years, balans has thus become one of the most prominent representatives of the domestic underground.

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